Everyone is talking about how inflation is not going back down, but not enough people are talking about how it is going back up.

The Median CPI measurement is historically more stable and is not swayed by outliers. Historically it trends with the typical CPI, but in much more subdued ways, if it trends at all. Averages can be manipulated or heavily swayed by a few large values, but the median is more robust as it depends on the entire distribution of price changes.

CPI has always been managed, but the recent divergence between CPI and the Median CPI makes me think that the obfuscation and deceit are getting worse.